Time and temperature indicating apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SIMULATNEOUSLY INDICATION OF TIME AND ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE BY REFERENCE TO A SINGLE CLOSED INDICIA PATTERN; AND COMPRISING A HOUSING, TIMEPIECE MEANS IN SAID HOUSING AND INCLUDING TIME INDICATING HAND MEANS, TRANSPARENT COVER MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID HOUSING OVER THE TIME INDICATING HAND MEANS, TEMPERATURE RESPONSIVE MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID COVER MEANS AND INCLUDING A TUBE WITH VISIBLE TEMPERATURE RESPONSIVE FLUID THEREIN, AND MEANS PROVIDING A CLOSED PATTERN OF TIMETELLING INDICIA VISIBLE BY MEANS OF SAID TRANSPARENT COVER MEANS AND GRADUATED INTO A PLURALITY OF INCREMENTAL DIVISIONS AND INCLUDING HOUR INDICATING INDICIA, SAID TUBE BEING AT LEAST PARTIALLY SHAPED TO LIE ADJACENT AND FOLLOW THE PERIPHERY OF THE PATTERN OF TIME-TELLING INDICIA WITH THE LINEAR DISPLACEMENT OF THE FLUID IN SAID TUBE PER INCREMENTAL CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE BEING SELECTED TO COOPERATE WITH THE SPACING OF THE DIVISIONS MAKING UP THE TIMETELLING INDICIA FOR PROVIDING A SIMULTANEOUS READING OF THE ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE FROM THE TIME-TELLING INDICIA WITH THE HOUR INDICATING INDICIA AND THE INCREMENTAL DIVISION AT THE TERMINAL END OF THE TEMPERATURE RESPONSIVE FLUID IN THE TUBE AFFORDING THE TEMPERATURE READING.